How to Use rucksack in a Sentence

rucksack

noun

• Some of the rocks in the rucksack can be removed by women.
  — Joy Burnford, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• To the pound, men and women lug the same rucksacks, throw the same grenades and shoulder the same machine guns.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• Tony pulled another shirt from his rucksack and tried to put it on him.
  — Craig R. McCoy / Staff Writer, Philly.com, 12 July 2017
• Our packs, nothing more than cheap rucksacks, didn’t weigh much.
  — Steve Meyer, Anchorage Daily News, 5 June 2019
• Going on a backpacking trip and need to fit all your stuff in one rucksack?
  — Anna Popp, Travel + Leisure, 28 Apr. 2023
• Many of the runners are treated for nasty chafing from lugging the rucksacks.
  — Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• The name implied that infantrymen would just throw the robots in their rucksacks.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 19 Aug. 2011
• His rucksack will hold an extra prosthetic, a spare brace and a 25-lb.
  — Diane Herbst, Peoplemag, 1 Nov. 2022
• One of the men had a knife, and officers also found a rucksack containing a goat's leg and bloody gloves.
  — Fox News, 4 Apr. 2018
• Ducking into a bathroom, Lendrum put the chicks back in his rucksack and boarded his flight.
  — Dennis Drabelle, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2020
• But there were still people in the aisle, and one of them now stopped beside her row: a huge boy, who was trying to make space for a rucksack in the overhead bin.
  — Anne Enright, The New Yorker, 29 Aug. 2019
• The roadway was a river of fire, with homes and their contents, tatami mats, futons, rucksacks, all in flames.
  — Brad Lendon and Emiko Jozuka, CNN, 7 Mar. 2020
• It had even dangled in a rucksack from the feet of an Air Force pararescue member during a training jump.
  — Meg Jones, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 July 2018
• Gathering as many nuggets as his rucksacks can hold, the man sets out for the nearest city to deposit his findings.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 4 May 2023
• Margaret sheltered in the lee of a large stone, gneiss studded with gleaming black hornblende, and rummaged in the giant rucksack on my back.
  — Hugh Raffles, The New York Review of Books, 9 Oct. 2020
• The ear cups rotate so the headset can slip easily into your rucksack.
  — Antony Leather, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• The Poet arrives to the set carrying a rucksack of clinking bottles, tequila and whiskey.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 16 Feb. 2017
• In the shelter beside him was a meager pile of gear: blanket, leather jacket, canvas rucksack.
  — Outside Online, 5 Nov. 2018
• Each wore a full combat uniform and hefted an M4 carbine weapon, water and a rucksack, gear that totals about 70 pounds.
  — Marc Lester, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2021
• His local newspaper told the tale of a former U.S. Army staff sergeant who left behind his job and family and picked up a rifle and a rucksack on the front line.
  — Thomas Gibbons-Neff, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2023
• Lady Gaga also gave a digital shoutout by donning a red coat, leather rucksack, and weekender bag to rep the capsule.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 15 July 2017
• The commuter in your life will feel special sporting this waterproof rucksack.
  — Gabriela Aoun, Outside Online, 10 Nov. 2020
• The rucksacks symbolize the heavy burdens carried by troops and their families.
  — Stan Grossfeld, BostonGlobe.com, 10 May 2018
• Matthew VanDyke, a gaunt, bearded forty-two-year-old from Baltimore, grabbed his rucksack from the carousel and strode purposefully toward the exit.
  — Seth Harp, Harper’s Magazine , 22 June 2022
• More than eighty years later, Henry Worsley, carrying a rucksack and a sleeping bag, pried open the cemetery gate and went inside.
  — Krista Stevens, Longreads, 7 Feb. 2018
• The 14-liter rucksack has a rolltop closure with reflective drawcords to compress.
  — Outside Online, 23 June 2022
• Key examples are body armor, helmets and rucksacks that are often too big for female soldiers and small-stature men.
  — Lolita C. Baldor, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
• Kayla Padgett rested her rifle against her rucksack and turned to her platoon, assembling them in three neat rows.
  — Dave Philipps, New York Times, 26 May 2017
• The newly popular rucksacks are similar to those once supplied by the CIA to a number of Syrian rebel factions.
  — Raja Abdulrahim, WSJ, 22 Oct. 2017
• For the competitions, members bring their rifles and rucksacks packed with camping comfort foods like salami, Snickers bars and Gatorade, as well as first-aid kits.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, New York Times, 31 Oct. 2016

Last Updated: 29 Sep 2024